Stimulus funds
bring Caspian tern project to Siskiyou County, Siskyou
Daily News 8/12/09. "...the Tulelake reserve rock islandís
cost is approximately $1.1 million, the Orems unit rock
islandís cost is approximately $650,000 and the Sheepy Lake
floating islandís cost is approximately $2.3 million...an
estimated colony of 10,000 nesting pairs of Caspian terns on
Rice Island in the Columbia River were consuming approximately
6 million to 25 million salmonid smolts per year, according to
a 1999 USACE report." (KBC NOTE: lets get this straight;
the feds will plant endangered salmon into the Klamath Basin
in a billion dollar closed-door "agreement," lure terns into
the Klamath Basin which eat little salmon, and mandate the
farmers must create a thriving bunch of salmon in the warm
shallow water to keep getting farm water. Incidentally, the
rocks being used for this multimillion$ project are being
taken from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuge. If you
the public were to pick up these sacred rocks you'd be
imprisoned or dealt a heavy fine.)

Unintended Consequences

The government and Klamath Basin farmers have
spent millions of dollars purchasing efficient
sprinklers to conserve water. However, Pacific Power,
disregarded the fact that their regulated water to create
power comes from Klamath Project design and efficiency.
They've significantly raised the irrigators' power rates, so
many irrigators are forced to return to flood irrigation.

7/3/06 KBC photo

Protecting the
tortoises, The Spectrum,
"We've found that
fences don't work with fire and drought," (KBC Note: The enviros are
shocked that, by building fences and creating wilderness areas, the
tortoises die in fires that they forbid humans to suppress in 'wild' areas.
In Klamath/Siskiyou, the logging industry was decimated by the spotted owl
scam, people were forbidden to fight fires in the wilderness areas created
to protect the owl, then the fires killed more owls than ever disturbed by
timber harvest.)